Engineering Manager, Benepass
$180-210k
+ Equity
More information about location
Benefits administration platform
Open for applications
Benefits administration platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-210k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies distribute meaningful benefits that support the personal and professional well-being of their team.
Role
Who you are
- Technical Expertise: Deep software engineering experience, particularly in Python/Django, JavaScript/React or React Native, enabling you to guide architectural decisions and contribute code hands-on
- Leadership & Empathy: Exceptional communicator who builds psychological safety, encourages diverse perspectives, and coaches engineers toward their growth goals
- Outcome-Driven: Passionate about owning end-to-end outcomes, from roadmap planning to production monitoring, ensuring customer delight and system reliability
- Disciplined Craft: Committed to simplicity, clean code, and rigorous processes (e.g., code reviews, automated testing) aligned with Benepass’s values of discipline and scalability
- Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading teams of 3–8 engineers, ideally in a startup or SaaS environment focused on client apps
- Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead design reviews, enforce coding standards, and prototype solutions in JavaScript/React, React Native, or Python/Django, ensuring scalable, secure systems
- People Development: Experience mentoring engineers through 1:1s, setting growth goals tied to an IC matrix, and building inclusive hiring pipelines
- Delivery Excellence: Track record of managing SDLC processes, defining KPIs (e.g., DORA metrics, velocity), and delivering high-quality client app features on time
Desirable
- Experience in fintech, particularly with benefits platforms or payment systems, ensuring user-centric, secure, and compliant solutions
- Expertise in handling large-scale data or building systems with critical reliability, such as high-availability client apps or financial infrastructure
- Proven ability to set, measure, and achieve team KPIs and metrics (e.g., cycle time, defect rates, velocity), driving continuous improvement
- Experience evaluating and adopting tools (e.g., CI/CD, observability, IDE plugins) to enhance software delivery efficiency and developer satisfaction
- Strong background in people management, including running effective 1:1s, performance reviews, promotion cases, and performance improvement plans
- Experience interviewing and hiring talent, designing inclusive hiring processes, and leveling up existing team members through mentorship and skill development
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager at Benepass, you will lead a team of 3–8 engineers owning our client apps, including multiple web applications and our mobile application built in React Native
- Reporting to the Vice President of Engineering, you will drive end-to-end outcomes for user-facing experiences, ensuring scalable, secure, and delightful solutions that empower employees to access their benefits seamlessly
- With a strong technical background, you will stay hands-on, jumping in to code, prototype, or debug alongside your team when needed, while excelling in communication and leadership to shape technical strategy, mentor engineers, and foster a high-performing, inclusive culture
- Your leadership will ensure our platform and team scale to support Benepass’s ambitious growth, aligning with our Engineering Department Values: Own the Outcome, Discipline in the Small Things, Keep It Simple, Ship It Fast, Empathy & Open Collaboration, and Build with Craft, Stability, Scale, and Security
- OUR TECHNOLOGY AND STACK
- Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, GraphQL, JavaScript, React, Tailwind CSS, React Native (plus a bit of Swift/Objective-C and Java/Kotlin when it’s called for), AWS, Docker
Our take
The US labor market is creating higher demand for top tier talent, and many companies are looking to improve their benefits as a way of staying competitive. Strong health insurance and holiday policies, however, no longer cut it. Benepass is a benefits administration company looking to help companies stay ahead in this new landscape.
The basic Benepass premise is that pre- and post- tax benefits should be flexible and accessible for employees. As things stand, tax-advantage benefits are hugely under-leveraged by employees: they’re either unsuitable for individual employees, or are procedurally complicated or difficult to use. Benepass’ app centralises and simplifies the process, allowing employees to explore, track, and exercise benefits from a single platform and VISA card.
Building Benepass’ product around a card is a nice twist. Platforms like Zestful and Compt, who are similarly directed towards simplifying communication and education around employee benefits, don’t yet offer the same tangible feature. They’re also not as focused on the more complex area of tax-advantage benefits - which make substantial savings for employers as well as employees. Benepass’ solution is an easy win/win, and in today’s labor market conditions an increasingly necessary one.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2024
$20m
EARLY VC
Sep 2021
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $34.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: We pay $430 per month toward your health insurance and fully cover dental and vision. You also get membership to OneMedical, Teladoc and Talkspace
- Flexible, autonomous work: We’re remote first so live where you’re most happy. We come together in-person as a team 3-4 times per year
- Benepass perks: $500 to set up your home office, $100 per month for wellness, however you define it, $150 per month for home internet and cell phone, $150 per month for co-working
Company HQ
Greenwich Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaclyn Chen
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously an Associate at Goldman Sachs, then TPG Capital, before moving on to work in Business Development at Teampay.
Mark Fischer
(Co-founder)An ex-Google Mechanical Engineer, who went on to hold a Senior Robotics Engineering role at X: The Moonshot Factory.
Kabir Soorya
(CTO & Co-Founder)An In-Q-Tel technologist who then worked on the Senior Technical Staff at Sidewalk Labs.
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